It doesn't look good again for Brisbane, or parts of NSW. We should be okay where we're at, but apparently with the incoming tide our storm-water drains (they're connected) may overflow and cause some flooding.

Infact I use to have a relly hot friend from there but unfurtunetly the last party we have I was really wasted and grab her ass and it cause a huge problem. Her dad (that is a marine) wants to ripp my nuts... thinks are not the same...

Regarding the floods - I've got family in Hervey Bay that are alright, but they're boxed in by the floods in Maryborough and Bundaberg. Does anyone know how bad the flooding is in northern NSW, if there is any? Most of the news I've seen is solely focusing on what's happening in Qld.

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gomorro wrote:

I felt like if Ygritte shoved me chilly up my ass (Thats right, touched by fire)

Damn I need to start listening to some Jay-Z. Also have you heard the GZA's solo album 'Liquid Swords'?

A long time ago, when I first got into Wu-Tang, but I didn't really like it. My taste in hiphop has evolved a bit since then though, I should revisit it. I have a lot of respect for Jay-Z for a few reasons: His debut album didn't come out until he was 27 - 28, and already made a fortune selling drugs. The life experience is reflected in his (truly poetic) lyrics, especially on those early albums. Then he went legit and made even more money. He started his own record label and has been self-released since the first album, one of my favorite lines of his: "I don't get dropped; I drop the label."

As his career went on he got better at writing radio songs (short verses, catchy hooks, maybe a bridge) but on Reasonable Doubt he was very much doing his own things, some of the songs on that album have verses that go on for minutes.

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John_Sunlight wrote:

Also to the guy who won't check out something amateurish: how are you into metal??

There's now a "Black Flag" and "Flag," neither of which involve Rollins or Dez. That's not necessarily a dealbreaker for me as there are original members still involved in one incarnation or another, but this is looking awfully dubious.

I'm on day one of a self-imposed two day vacation before starting a new job. What I've done so far:

Listen to Savage Grace's Master of Disguise (most perfect speed metal drumming ever?)Listen to Manowar's Into Glory Ride (Last two songs are world destroyers)Listen to Sortilege's s/t EP (as classy as trad steel can get I believe)

If everyday was this good I'd have no frame of reference and probably wouldn't enjoy it as much.

Tell me about it. I made a trek across California over winter break with hardly any money at all. When we got to Santa Cruz I had food poisoning from food bank bread and had to lance an infection on my foot myself. Not fun

Damn I need to start listening to some Jay-Z. Also have you heard the GZA's solo album 'Liquid Swords'?

Liquid Swords is my favorite Wu solo album. Ghostface is my favorite individual rapper as he is more consistent with his albums. Ironman, Supreme Clientele, Fish Scales and Apollo Kids are great albums. Would like to get Uncontrolled Substance by Inpectah Deck as it's really hard to find.

Damn I need to start listening to some Jay-Z. Also have you heard the GZA's solo album 'Liquid Swords'?

Liquid Swords is my favorite Wu solo album. Ghostface is my favorite individual rapper as he is more consistent with his albums. Ironman, Supreme Clientele, Fish Scales and Apollo Kids are great albums. Would like to get Uncontrolled Substance by Inpectah Deck as it's really hard to find.

There's now a "Black Flag" and "Flag," neither of which involve Rollins or Dez. That's not necessarily a dealbreaker for me as there are original members still involved in one incarnation or another, but this is looking awfully dubious.

Not sure about this. While I would rather it be Keith or Henry, at least they got a singer who was in the band at one point. My gut reaction is that they should just let a good thing die. Black Flag is one of my favourite bands of all time, and I'd rather them not risking a lame reunion album, decades after they released "In My Head". Hopefully they can turn out something good, but at this point I only think a reunion with Rollins would be a good idea, and still then that could have turned out lame.

Eh. My older cat died Friday evening without any warning. She was about eight or nine years old and seemingly healthy other than being slightly overweight and having a bit of a ligament or tendon problem with her hind leg. We were giving her medication for the pain but only as prescribed by her vet. According to my mom, she was just laying on her little perch and began growling enough to warrant driving her to the vet. She stopped breathing on way to the veterinarian's office. It feels so fucking shitty that I wasn't at least with her when she died- especially since she would specifically come to me when she was scared or being attacked by our other cat. The feels

That album is awesome, fucking hillarious. shame their other albums are nowhere near as good. I'm slowly aquiring the early-period Wu-related albums, still got a fair few to go though. Lately I've been really into Cannibal Ox, Company Flow, Vast Aire etc.

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Mike_Tyson wrote:

"I think the average person thinks I'm a fucking nut and I deserve whatever happens to me."

Joined: Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:16 pmPosts: 7681Location: The Land Down Under (no, not THAT one)

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 7:45 pm

Just came back from a youth group church meeting after being promised cool discussions and free food and drinks. The promise was fulfilled, but I also feel like I have been among robots for the past couple of hours.

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Napero wrote:

(...) Bolt Thrower is to the soul what coffee is to the earthly shell.

Most unheralded Wu release: Killarmy, Dirty Weaponry. Also the best part about Wu is how many incredible records they released in a short span of time. Tical, Purple Tape, Ironman, Liquid Swords, Return To The 36 Chambers are all awesome and dropped in something crazy like an 12 month span. And that was after 36 Chambers. Wheels really started to come off with Gravel Pit though. Oh man. Gravel Pit. SMDH.

_________________"It's not some safe thing like Fugazi where everyone sits down and eats their tofu and goes 'wow man, that's revolutionary' " - Jerry A of Poison Idea

Man, the problem with Killarmy is they get AMAZING production, but Killa Sin is so much better than all the rest of them as far as emceeing ability that it isn't even close. It eventually becomes uncomfortable when you just want to hear 2 guys out of a huge posse.

I just shut it out because, honestly, the songs on that disc are awesome. Its like complaining about Cappadonna with the Wu - he's killed it for what, one verse ever? Otherwise the dude never seems to totally belong on anything, even in limited doses on posse songs. But you get through it.

_________________"It's not some safe thing like Fugazi where everyone sits down and eats their tofu and goes 'wow man, that's revolutionary' " - Jerry A of Poison Idea

Yeah but Capp being weak is a huge minority (some might throw Masta Killa or U-God in the underwhelming column) whereas it's the exact inverse with Killarmy. Don't get me wrong I still own all their albums except one, but I'm usually holding my breath until its time for Killa Sin or Dom P to rhyme. Rza's little brother or cousin or whoever sounds just like him, with even less flow. It's bonkers.

Yeah I thought about saying that about U-God and MK because, hey, they're along for the ride too, but Cappadonna sorta came in as a substitute Wu member and you know, nobody likes Curly Joe, you feel me?

Actually, you know what other kinda-Wu related disc was real good? La The Darkman's Heist of the Century. Killa Priest's Heavy Mental was pretty good but I haven't spun it in forever.

(also did I mention I really like Wu-Tang Clan because I really do like Wu-Tang Clan)

_________________"It's not some safe thing like Fugazi where everyone sits down and eats their tofu and goes 'wow man, that's revolutionary' " - Jerry A of Poison Idea

As I've mentioned before, banks have been keeping foreclosed properties off the market to restrict supply and boost home prices, and whatever foreclosure inventory appears for sale is immediately snapped up by greedy absentee investors-landlords. And that's even more true today than it was back when I lived here in 2009.

The absentee investor-landlord business has hit the big time, much so that marquee name Wall Street outfits are getting in on the action. Hedge funds and other big time investors have been building up massive McTractHome rental empires with thousands of rental properties all across the nation—and Victorville is no exception.

Colony owns about 3,600 foreclosed homes, including 133 bought in the Atlanta area in one day, and officials hope to increase the firm's inventory to 10,000 by next spring.

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According to investment bank Jefferies & Co., major financial firms led by Colony, Blackstone Group LP, Och-Ziff Capital Management and Oaktree Capital Group LLC have raised more than $8 billion to buy houses, largely in markets pummeled by the housing crisis.

The same guys who made a killing off the housing bubble are now snapping up the very same houses at bargain bin rates to collect rent on them for the rest of time. There's your American dream of home ownership.

I created a second user on my computer so I could open up a new iTunes. I'm adding all of my non-metal music into the iTunes, and foobar2000 (for the lossless files). I even set up a scrobbler and everything for last fm. I was getting overwhelmed trying to wade through mountains of metal albums in my folders to get to non-metal albums.

I feel like for the past year or two metal has completely dominated my time, and my music preference. I want to have metal be separate from the other music, because there's something about metal that's 'different' than other music. Getting into metal only leads to more metal. All of the genre is kind of closed off from other music. There's hardly any noticeable influence with a metal band that doesn't come from other metal bands. That's not a bad thing, but it doesn't help when I want to be into more music than just metal.

Although I love the genre, and I feel like I've dug so deep, I found gems that only the extremely hardcore, such as a lot of the users on this site (I presume), and myself only into. My idea is to start with a clean slate, except I can still come back to my old library any time I want. I barely have any non-metal albums to listen to. I think seeing them all in iTunes already makes it a lot clearer, and it will be easier for my eyes and mind to fill in the blanks once I get to finding new, non-metal albums to add to the library.